Glendy_BlueBird

Here's Alora at her late 30s✨

I loved her amber eyes, but I changed her eye color to blue because she keeps getting mistaken for Isabela🥹 Let's just say that her and her brothers' eyes now take after their dad😅

This doesn't harm the design of her kids' designs btw.

The year before the pandemic, I was in senior high school. I met someone who soon became my best friend. A few months into our friendship, she approached me one day with excitement in her eyes as she introduced me to this song, "Phoenix" by FallOutBoys. Soon after the song ended, she told me the song reminded her of me. She said I was a phoenix and that I embodied the element of fire in my personality.

I was extremely competitive at the time, passionate about what I do, persistent, strong-willed, headstrong, and very expressive.

I thought I knew who I was... But somewhere around the time of the pandemic, I lost myself. The moment I moved to the city for college, I was bombarded with a lot of bad news while I was finding myself.

Back then, I didn't know what burnout was. And now I do... I lost my spark. I lost the fire in my eyes. I'm in the embers, and I'm afraid to end up with just a tray full of ashes.

I've been practicing caricature, and I'm glad that I'm progressing well. This is what I actually look like in real life.

I've been trying to manage two pages on every platform I'm mostly active on. One is "artby_glendy," and the other is "glendy_bluebird." I really do like the username "arby_glendy," but I just realized there are a lot of people with the same name as me out there. And I don't want to use my last name in my usernames either. So I just decided to keep "Glendy_Bluebird" or "Glendy🐦". I decided to name my brainrot or fanart page "Glendy_Bluebird_2".

I grew up a perfectionist. I'm Asian, and I'm the eldest. I'm very keen on spotting "mistakes" in my crafts, which I guess was feeding my imposter syndrome problem that took out my joy in drawing. It got worse in 2023. I'm doing my best to practice getting over too much perfectionism right now, starting with doing a few drawing exercises or challenges such as this one. I'm experimenting with different art styles.

I really do hope I'll be able to post more after this. Though I am also quite preoccupied with school and work. Plus, lots of things have happened to me in that one year. Again, thank you so much for those who kept supporting me even though I've been mostly inactive these days for quite some time. I'm planning on offering you a gift, but I'm not sure when I'll be able to give it to you guys.

I LOOOOOVE THE SPARKLES ON HER DRESS DESIGN💚✨💚✨💚

Thank you for commissions me!🥰💚✨

🐦I've always loved putting sparkles😭 I'm a magpie🥹✨

I used to have an obsession with glitter, rhinestone and anything shiny when I was in elementary to 7th grade🤣 I surpressed it for a few years (Mostly while I was in my "emo"phase). But that obsession came back bit by bit🥹 Now I'm starting to put it on my digital artworks🤣

I had no idea what to draw🥹I even have a few WIP drawings before this that I never got to finish🥲 I was also so upset that I wasn't able to get the foreshortening right in this piece🤣 Oh well😌... I'll take note of that and practice more.😚

🐦2023 has been the most intense roller coaster ride of problems and emotions I have had so far. It both made me flash back to all of my past traumas (which are confidential) and made me feel more pressured about my future than I'd ever been. I was a wreck. But it was also the year I had a lot of realizations. Maybe it was a year for growth... For 2024, I won't make any promises to myself or anyone; I'll just keep on figuring things out and experimenting.

🐦Thank you to those who stayed with me and kept supporting me. 🥰✨I hope you'll still be with me till I finally bloom. LOVE LOTS💖💞

THANK YOU FOR INSPIRING ME AND BEING SUCH AN AWESOME ARTIST AND PERSON!!

also i "spam-liked" your posts ye :)

🦋Encanto (Genderbend) x Wish🌟

#secretsanta gift for @just_firinnie 🎁 organized by @deenahdinarion 🥰

The theme I was going for for this holiday secret Santa illustration was "wish", and I instantly thought about Star from Disney's recent release "Wish". So I illustrated Star with Milagro (@just_firinnie's gender-bend Encanto character).

I tweaked a few parts of the design😅 I hope it's okay🥹

Disclaimer:

-The Encanto town in the background below was just edited, not illustrated by me. I found the image from google (it was a screenshot from the movie)

-The gender-bend design was made by @just_firinnie.

I assume Alora Luna is either an INFJ or ISFJ

(fun fact, camilo is an ENTP)

so, am i right?

Character Concept Art for her Redesign

Alora is a quiet and perceptive person. She is often seen as poised with minimal expression, yet she is sincere and has a rather expressive side that she only shows to those she’s most comfortable with. She sees what others overlook, yet she feels like she’s only seen when needed. She may be patient, but she could be fierce. 

She grew up following her father’s footsteps in academics, music, and culinary arts. She intends to keep making him proud. She basically learned a lot just from following him around. Yet she still has her own interests such as literature (writing plays, songs, stories, and other works of fiction, including non-fiction) and photography.

The "Copy Cat". He will have the gift of copying others' gifts temporarily in times of need.

Juanito almost looks like a replica of his papa, but he behaves oppositely to Camilo. He's the little angel. He's a soft little boy, very sweet, very timid and humble, and he's so attached to his mami. He's never mischievous like his dad and his older siblings. That's how he is, even while he is growing up.

Funfact:

His mami calls him gatito sometimes

He's afraid of scissors

He randomly stares at his papa for long periods and loves watching him perform.

He loves copying his brother Carlos' power just to turn himself into a cat. (In the future)

Awe🥰Thank you!🥺

I'm not so sure with her exact weight, all I can say is that she's curvy/chubby with a pear-shaped body. For her height, she's 5ft 5in or 5ft 6in. One of her physical traits is that she has tiny feet (I will have post of her full body when I have free time🥲) so despite her size and height, her feet wouldn't match that since it would be really small (I couldn't specify yet). Her hair type ranges between 2B to 2C to 3A. When she and her brothers were way younger, their hairs were just type 3A.

To generally describe her personality, she's very intelligent, meticulous, observant, and reserved, yet also secretly quite expressive.

OMG! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!😍🥰💗✨